On This Day in 1851: The Window Tax Abolished: The British government officially repealed the highly controversial Window Tax. Originally introduced in 1696, the tax assessed property values based on the number of windows a house had. To avoid the fee, many London residents… pic.twitter.com/1a5qepjv1V
— Knowledge of London (@Knowledgepoint) July 24, 2026
My students sometimes ask why they should memorise things in the age of Google and LLMs. But internalised facts are your bullshit filters and your raw material for creative association. Facts outside your head are inert.
— Henry Shevlin (@dioscuri) July 23, 2026
Sound of hail falling on rocks. pic.twitter.com/mDXm5lna3R
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
And he was just about to start his 16th year of college. This is devastating. https://t.co/t481wzxYLD
— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) July 21, 2026
ZERO percent of education papers were replicable, by my discipline's (dark blue) standard. https://t.co/oziCSbI4y5
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) July 22, 2026
Office life before the invention of AutoCAD and other drafting software.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares. pic.twitter.com/eO7jlEBxWi
Shouldn't we all be eternally thankful to Christopher Nolan that, thanks to his new movie, a large part of the world population now knows there is a great story from antiquity called The Odyssey?
— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) July 23, 2026
And know the key story beats?
(Might even - gasp - check out the book?) pic.twitter.com/RCDpshmU5x
Call of the cassowary 🦖🔊
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) July 23, 2026
📽: suryantoraptor/igpic.twitter.com/HOYCWakHtE
Dogs and their skill of befriending literally everything. pic.twitter.com/pUqwoVamkK
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 23, 2026
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